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Venezuela News And Views (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
So Chavez went to his own Damascus (the one for 2008, he seems to have a new Damascus every year). The King of Spain is the one who said " ¿Por qué no te callas? " but it is Chavez who makes a special trip to the summer Palace of Juan Carlos in the Baleares Islands. The symbolism is lost on no one except perhaps on some of the most sycophantic of chavistas. It is fun to read El Pais of Spain , who...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Damascus - Israel and Syria are to continue their indirect peace negotiations this coming week in Istanbul, it was announced Saturday in Damascus. This fourth round of negotiations is to cover how the two formal enemy states can move on from the phas...
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biladsham (Free subscription) | yesterday
Economist: FOR “defaming and insulting the administrative bodies of the state”, the president of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, Mazen Darwish, was recently sentenced to a salutary ten days in jail. His real crime was to report on riots in an industrial town near Damascus, Syria’s capital. Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based lobby, said his case brought the number of journalists...
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KABOBfest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shawkat `Uthman Al-`Aidi. Leader of the greater Syrian revolution in the Damascus and Ghouta (woods/forest outside Damascus') and the last of the martyrs in this area. born in 1890. Organized the battle that liberated a part of Damascus in 1926. Haytham al-Sham`a. Colonel in the Internal Security Forces, born in Damascus in 1938, martyred on 15 march, 1981 (someone please comment on 1981).
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Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Huda al Husseini Asharq Alawsat The Lebanese have become thick-skinned and we hope that we can say the same of French President Nicholas Sarkozy. His pledge to visit Damascus this coming 8 September leaves approximately two months to test Syria’s intentions with regards to establishing diplomatic relations with Lebanon. Hopefully, his schedule will include passing by the ‘Lebanese embassy’ in Damascus...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
7/24/08 *France return for Iraqi oil through Syria* Damascus, Paris and neighbors agencies on the confidential French (Convention Strategy) with Syria and Iraq, building a new pipeline parallel to the line of Kirkuk Banias on the export of Iraqi oil, the same line, which subdivided it, near...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"The extraordinary scale of the metropolis - a 1,001-metre skyscraper, wildlife reserves, and homes for 700,000 people - is matched by a plan to also build an international rail network linking it to Damascus, Baghdad, Iran and China. Inspired by Dubai's spectacular growth, the Madinat al-Hareer, or Silk City, is intended to create a trading future and a diversified economy in a city which would become...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Iraqi opposition participate in the Damascus International Fair next . A press release issued by the Information Office, Ministry of Commerce, quoting Director General of the General Company for exhibitions Friday and Saturday, Iraqi Radio NOAA received a copy of which Iraq to participate in...
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KABOBfest (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Al-Ma’moun al-Bitar. Captain and martyr in the Syrian Arab Army, born in Damascus in 1912, martyred during the battles of the Arab Liberation Army in Palestine, 1948. Maysaloun. In memory of the battle of Maysaloun on 24 july, 1948, a battle of martyrs in defense of Damascus against the French forces. The hero Yousef al-`Azme, minister of war, was martyred during it. ( someone please add more about...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Beirut / Washington - In an abrupt about-face, the State Department on Wednesday scrubbed plans to meet with a visiting delegation from Syria, a meeting that could have signaled an easing of tense U.S. relations with Damascus. One day after he said the delegation, in Washington on what is described as a private visit, would be received by a top State Department official, spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos...
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This Day ... In Jewish History (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
July 24 In Jewish History 1148: Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. The Second Crusade gained nothing for the Christians. The failure of the crusade may help explain “the long period of persecution that included French clergyman giving frequent anti-Semitic sermons. In some cities, such as Beziers, Jews were forced to pay a special tax every Palm Sunday. In Toulouse,...
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Solomonia (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
[This post continues the series of excerpts from John Roy Carlson's 1951 work, Cairo to Damascus (link to in-print paperback). All posts in the series will be collected on this page.] Still in Gaza, just after the beach. One evening,...
